From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: about permissions
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 01:41:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <069901c5666c$8c939330$6401a8c0@Charmin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050601033016.5980.47625@rif.myfreedombox.com>
A directory should havae execute permission for everybody as that grants the
ability to cd into that directory.
Also, you made the directory writable to everyone, which isn't a good idea.
In general, 755 or 711 is a good setting for a home directory.
I think the lack of execute permission is what tripped you up. Baasically
nothing will work if no one can cd or traverse through that directory.
HTH
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "tony seth" <lp800@myfreedombox.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 11:30 PM
Subject: about permissions
Hi all: I have made a bit of a mess of my system, and need a bit of
help to fix it. I tried recreating a user, and although that went
fine, when I tried to run a program in X, the X server shut down due to
permissions not being correct. I tried correcting this by chmod 666 on
the home directory, but now can't log in with my home directory. Can
anyone tell me what the correct permissions on the /home directory
should be, and also those on a directory of a user within that
directory? Thanks much!
Cjeerep!
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